The date 09/09/99 is a historic watershed for African politics.  It was on this date at the Mediterranean port of Sirte in Libya that the birth of a new baby, the African Union (AU), occurred. Its mission, unlike that of its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), was to advance Africa towards economic integration and political federation.


The OAU had completed its mandate of liberating the continent from colonial domination with the ending of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s. Now AU has to deliver in its objective goal if Africa is to be a political and an economic factor in a globalised world with the weight of its resources and over 800 million people, a sizeable market that the rest of the world cannot afford to ignore!

 
The existing boundaries of our 53 nonviable nation states in Africa today are, by and large, a product of the machinations orchestrated in the 1884 Berlin Conference in which European powers decided th... [Read More]